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4.9.03 U.S. Department of Energy: Natural gas remains the lowest energy source Click here to see the Department of Energy's Federal Register Notice providing its forecasting of the representative average unit costs of five residential energy sources for 2003. These cost are used mainly by manufacturers to comply with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appliance labeling requirements. Manufacturers are required to use these revised DOE representative average unit cost when the FTC publishes new ranges of comparability for specific covered products such as water heaters, clothes washers, etc. Natural gas remains the lowest average costs at $8.16 per million Btus, and electricity the highest at $24.65 per million Btus. Click here to see graph. |
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